Fighting glove



May 1, 1923. 1,453,715 s. LEVINSON FIGHTING enovz Filed Jan. 12 1921 2Sheets-Sheet 1 May 1, 1923.

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PATENT OFFICE.

s01. LnvmsoN, or SAN rmncisco, CALIFORNIA.

FIGHTING GLOVE.

Application filed January 12. 1921. Serial No. 436,750.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 8% LEVINSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFighting Gloves, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to boxing gloves, and particularly to relativelyheavyweight boxing gloves, these boxing gloves weigh- 111;: eight or tenounces.

The general object of this invention is to improve upon the constructionand form of boxing loves, and more specifically to provide a g ovehaving a double grip whereby the glove is inost securely held upon thehand, and which is further provided with a padded portion which protectsthe knuckle of the forefinger to thereby prevent any injury to theforeknuckle of the hand while boxing.

A further object is to provide a glove of this character in which thethumb of the glove is reinforced by a reinforcing strap stitched overthe seam between the thumb and the palm of the glove.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure1 is a plan view of the glove looking toward the palm; I

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the glove;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the glove;

Figure 4: is a plan view of the blank from which the palm is made;

Figure 5 is a plan view of the blank for the back.

Referring to these drawings it will be seen from Figure 3 that the gloveconsists of the back section 10 of leather or other suitable material,and a palm section 11 which is shorter than the back section so that theback! section extends around beneath the under faces of the fingers andis stitched to the palm section, at 12. The palm section adjacent thewrist is provided with a V- shaped opening 13 formed with the usualperforations for laces 14.- The palm is also provided with ventilatingopenings 15, as usual. Stitched to the back section and the palm sectionof the glove is the thumb 16 which is formed in two parts 17 and 18stitched together on the line 19 and stitched to the back. section 10and also stitched'to the alm section on the-line 20, this line of stitcing being covered by a reinforcing strap 21 which is stitched to thepalm section and the section 17 respectively of the thumb. Extendingtransversely across the palm slightly inward of the end of the palm is astrip 22, the space between this strip and the palm section of the glovebeing filled with stufiing 23 so as to form a rib. This rib projectsoutward and also slightly inward.

The lining 24'of the back section extends from-the wrist extremity ofthe glove, and

is attached to the palm section on a line beyond the stitching 12, thepalm section being extended inwardly beyond the seam 12 to join thelining 24 and to form a flexible transversely extending added rib 25which defines a pocket 26 or the fingers of the hand. This rib 25 withthe rib 23 constitutes a double grip for the glove which holds it verysecurely upon the hand.

The especial feature of the glove form-- ing the subject matter of thepresent invention is the provision of means for protecting the knuckleof the first or forefinger. In ordinary boxing gloves, there is littleprotection for this finger, as the padding of that portion of the backof the glove which extends transversely across the fingers is relativelyli ht at its junction with the palm of the gi ove. I have so designedthe back of the glove and the palm as to provide a padded protuberance27. This is provided, as illustrated in Figure 5, by forming the blankconstituting the outside of the back of the glove 10 with a laterallyprojecting portion 28 and cutting out the blank 11 to form the outsideof the palm with a lateral projection 29 in advance of the thumb recess30. When these sections are stitched together along the line 12, arelatively great amount of material in the laterally projecting portion28 of the blank lO forms an outwardly bulging pocket, as it were, whichis filled with padding and which projects toward the thumb, and when thehand is placed within the glove and closed, this padded protuberantportion, which is somewhat triangular in side elevation, fits the spacebetween the inner edge of the thumb and the side of the glove andentirely fills this space so that the knuckle of the first finger isprotected by a relatively large Ill) amount of padding at thisparticular point. The wrist of the glove is defined by stitching 31extending across the back of the glove and through the lining, the spacebetween the lining and the back of the glove being padded, as at 32. Therear ends of the palm portion of the glove at the wrist are also padded,the lining '33 being of leather at this oint.

While I have illustrated a, certain particularshape for the sectionsfrom which the glove is made and certain details of (onstruction, I donot wish to be limited to these, as these details might be varied inmany respects, but I regard as particular features of the presentinvention the provision in a boxing glove'of the double grip formed bythe parts 23 and 25, and particularly the provision of a protectingprotuberant padding on the side of the glove adapted to fit in the spacebetween the thumb and the body of the glove for the purpose ofprotecting the knuckle joint.

I claim: v 1. A boxing glove having a thumb ortion and apadded bodyport-ion with w ich said thumb portion is connected, said body having anangular protuberance integrally formed therewith 'and'adapted to extendfrom the side of the love inwardly toward the crotch of the t umb toprotect the knuckle of the user disposed within said thumb portion. A

2. A boxing glovehaving a thumb r tion' and a. padded body portion towhich the thumb-portion is connected, the body portion comprim'n a backpart and a palm part, each of whic is formed from a blank having alateral extension, which extensions when joined together form aprotuberance adapted to fill t e crotch of the thumb part of the gloveso as to protect the side of the knuckle of the user.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

- SOL LEVINSON.

